# Grafana v8.5.4 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v8.5.4
- **Released:** May 31, 2022
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v8.5.4/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v8.5.4. Source highlight: Download page

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- Breaking changes 

## New Features
- **Alerting:** Remove disabled flag for data source when migrating alerts. #48559, @yuri-tceretian
- **Alerting:** Show notification tab of legacy alerting only to editor. #49624, @yuri-tceretian
- **Alerting:** Update migration to migrate only alerts that belong to existing org\dashboard. #49192, @yuri-tceretian
- **AzureMonitor:** Do not quote variables when a custom "All" variable option is used. #49428, @andresmgot
- **AzureMonitor:** Update allowed namespaces. #48468, @jcolladokuri
- **CloudMonitor:** Correctly encode default project response. #49510, @aangelisc

## Bug Fixes
- **Alerting:** Allow disabling override timings for notification policies. #48648, @gillesdemey
- **Alerting:** Allow serving images from custom url path. #49022, @gillesdemey
- **Alerting:** Apply Custom Headers to datasource queries. #47860, @joeblubaugh
- **Alerting:** Fix RBAC actions for notification policies. #49185, @yuri-tceretian
- **Alerting:** Fix access to alerts for viewer with editor permissions when RBAC is disabled. #49270, @yuri-tceretian
- **Alerting:** Fix anonymous access to alerting. #49203, @yuri-tceretian